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Diacritical Mark
I'm using Word 2004 for Mac. I have some of the diacritical marks learned,
but I don't have the keyboard shortcut for the little circle over a letter that is required in some European names. For instance, the composer Martinu has the little circle over the "u". One puts the circle over an "a" by holding down option/alt while typing "a". But this doesn't work for the "u". Can someone help? Thanks. |
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Diacritical Mark
If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or
assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org erselking wrote: I'm using Word 2004 for Mac. I have some of the diacritical marks learned, but I don't have the keyboard shortcut for the little circle over a letter that is required in some European names. For instance, the composer Martinu has the little circle over the "u". One puts the circle over an "a" by holding down option/alt while typing "a". But this doesn't work for the "u". Can someone help? Thanks. |
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"Graham Mayor" wrote: If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP I tried this but got two short wavy lines, one above the other. |
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Did you type the code 018F on the regular numbers, not the numeric
keypad? (You use the keypad for the _other_ way to enter the basic ASCII characters, holding Alt at the same time -- but the two sets of code numbers are different.) If the character (in this case Czech long-u) doesn't happen to exist in the font you're using, then Word substitutes something with a similar code number. (But the Unicode for "approximately equal" is 2248, which doesn't seem too similar.) If you select that incorrect character and open Insert Symbol, it should be set to that character, and then you can see what its code is and maybe why it chose it. The letter you want appears to be in all the regular fonts that come with Vista or Office2007; are you using a less common font that doesn't include the Latin Extended-A range, which basically covers the roman-alphabet languages of Eastern Europe? On Sep 17, 8:52*am, erselking wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP * I tried this but got two short wavy lines, one above the other. |
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Diacritical Mark
Use the insert symbol command to ensure that the character is in the current
font. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org erselking wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP I tried this but got two short wavy lines, one above the other. |
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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Did you type the code 018F on the regular numbers, not the numeric keypad? (You use the keypad for the _other_ way to enter the basic ASCII characters, holding Alt at the same time -- but the two sets of code numbers are different.) If the character (in this case Czech long-u) doesn't happen to exist in the font you're using, then Word substitutes something with a similar code number. (But the Unicode for "approximately equal" is 2248, which doesn't seem too similar.) If you select that incorrect character and open Insert Symbol, it should be set to that character, and then you can see what its code is and maybe why it chose it. The letter you want appears to be in all the regular fonts that come with Vista or Office2007; are you using a less common font that doesn't include the Latin Extended-A range, which basically covers the roman-alphabet languages of Eastern Europe? On Sep 17, 8:52 am, erselking wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP I tried this but got two short wavy lines, one above the other. I'm using the Times New Roman font on a Mac running Word for Mac 2004 with OSX 10.4 Tiger. The first thing I did was to look in the Insert Symbol tables but did not find this character. Latin Extended-A is not on the drop down list. |
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Diacritical Mark
"Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the insert symbol command to ensure that the character is in the current font. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org erselking wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP I tried this but got two short wavy lines, one above the other. The first thing I did was to look in the Insert Symbol tables but did not find this character. |
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If it is not in the font then try a workaround by combining two characters
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org erselking wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the insert symbol command to ensure that the character is in the current font. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org erselking wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP I tried this but got two short wavy lines, one above the other. The first thing I did was to look in the Insert Symbol tables but did not find this character. |
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If the Mac font has Combining Diacritics, the ring-over is at Unicode
030A. On Sep 17, 10:47*am, "Graham Mayor" wrote: If it is not in the font then try a workaround by combining two charactershttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Banner_Text.htm -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org erselking wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote: Use the insert symbol command to ensure that the character is in the current font. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org erselking wrote: "Graham Mayor" wrote: If the character is in your current font then type 016F then ALT+X - or assign a more memorable keyboard shortcut. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP *I tried this but got two short wavy lines, one above the other. *The first thing I did was to look in the Insert Symbol tables but did not find this character.- |
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